Rackspace Hosting to Offer Hosted Virtual Desktop Platform

Cloud hosted infrastructure solution available through the channel reduces IT resource needs and delivers on benefits of desktop virtualization Citrix Summit 2011 SAN ANTONIO: Rackspace Hosting, the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, announced at Citrix Summit 2011 today the availability of the Rackspace hosted virtual desktop platform. The hosted virtual… Continue reading Rackspace Hosting to Offer Hosted Virtual Desktop Platform

Benchmarking a Scalable and Highly Available Architecture for Virtual Desktops

The benchmark results represent a greater than ten-fold (10x) decrease in the per-Desktop costs of SAN-based, high-availability virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs) FORT LAUDERDALE: DataCore Software, the premier provider of software-based storage virtualization solutions, today announced benchmark results and a research paper which together represent the first practical architecture for SAN-based vDesktops (virtual desktops) in real-world… Continue reading Benchmarking a Scalable and Highly Available Architecture for Virtual Desktops

Dell Virtual Remote Desktop Reference Architecture

Dell, Citrix, and Microsoft provide an end-to-end optimized solution for remote, server-hosted desktop virtualization called Dell Virtual Remote Desktop (VRD). This solution combines Dell’s client, server, storage, networking hardware, and services with Citrix XenDesktop desktop virtualization technology and Microsoft’s server virtualization and management infrastructure.

Wyse Highlights VDI Solutions for Cloud Computing at IPExpo 2010

Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, today announced its participation in IPExpo October 20th to 21st at Earls Court 2, London. As the UK’s largest end-to-end IT infrastructure event, IPExpo provides an ideal opportunity to see the latest advances from Wyse in its cloud, virtualization and wireless solutions. Wyse is participating in both the exhibition and the seminar sessions, and is located at Stand 466.

Microsoft opens MED-V 2.0 beta to the public

This week Microsoft opened up a public beta of Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) 2.0. So what exactly is MED-V? It’s an enterprise management solution that uses Microsoft Virtual PC as a platform in order to provide a localized strategy for desktop virtualization, but with centralized management. It helps to create, deploy, manage, monitor, and control Virtual PC virtual machines in a corporate environment.

VMware Strengthens End User Computing Strategy at VMworld 2010 Europe

Today at VMworld 2010 Europe, VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, advanced its vision for the future of end user computing with new products and a partnership to help organizations evolve their legacy desktop computing environments to a more modern, user-centric application and data delivery model.